Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 20:11:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: terry@lambert.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, ron@infi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysAdmin Tools - ideas wanted Message-ID: <199607060311.UAA16074@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199607052242.WAA03969@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 5, 96 04:42:31 pm
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> Seriously, I agree that the administrative commands should be typeable
> just from the command line. And Tcl can still provide such a ``user
> interface.''
Yes. I would like them to be database-centric, idempotent, and
reversable.
That is, the same tool should be used to add/delete/list database
entries, potentially for multiple databases.
For instance, the group and passwd files together are two databases
that constitute a credentials management schema.
The "user admin" tool should operate against both databases.
> Consider the primitives lock_passwd_file, append_pwent, lookup_pwent,
> etc., added to a Tcl interpreter (either compiled in or dynamically
> loaded). Then, make two scripts that use those primitives. You would
> then use those as follows:
>
> csh> add_user -login lambert -name "Terry Lambert" -homedir "/u/lambert"
>
> or
>
> csh> xuseradmin &
>
> where add_user is
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/tclsh
> ...check command line args, set defaults...
> if {[lock_passwd_file]} {
> append_pwent ...
> }
>
> and xuseradmin is
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/wish
> ...do it!...
Actually, I was thinking of:
==
#!/bib/sh
#
# xuadmin
#
# X user administration interface
FRONTEND uadmin
==
Where FRONTEND is a program written in TCL, curses, or whatever.
Preferrably, I'd build a front end manager that could dlopen the
appropriate interface based on the environment it is run in (ie: if
there is a DISPLAY environement variable, then FRONTEND would be X;
if not, it would be curses, whatever.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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